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Making C++ Code Beautiful

Talkat CppCon 2014 · on Wednesday, 2014-09-10· at 14:00· Pascal· [design-collaboration]

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name:James McNellis

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name:Kate Gregory

linkedin:kate-gregory-472b1117b

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video:https://youtu.be/BiYliKliFvs

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summary

Argues that C++ becomes readable by replacing macros with enum classes, using RAII destructors for cleanup, and preferring lambdas and algorithms (range-based for, auto) over walls of code. Shows a 5,000-line function where only 13 lines do the real work, and reports halves codebases by removing needless comments and using libraries instead of reinventing parsers or matrix math. Demonstrates lambda-initializer trick for complex setup and finds RAII fixes intermittent leaks.

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